Thursday, March 06, 2008

Team Duke has finally chosen a name. As you know negotiations have been stalled for weeks on a choosing a Tribe name. Finally the Duke Defendants called in a consultant, Sam Hummel, who proposed a solution during his 12 hour seminar on Duke Forest Sustainability. He chastised the team on its carbon footprint and pointed out John Burness in particularly. Sam said “White males have the largest carbon footprint, that’s undeniable!” He added “It is a decided fact of scientific research and we all know that when we break down carbon usage on a race, class, gender, and shoe size.” And he added it’s time Duke University confronted this social-eco-elitism. The thoroughly dejected Team acting on Sam’s proposal decided on a symbolic name, zapatos blancos tribe.

They promised to hold a "Cacerolazo," in front of the Duke President’s residence to demand Duke Leaders act to reduce their shoe sizes. When it was pointed by co-producer Baldo to the zapatos blancos tribe that were the leaders of Duke and that Brodhead was going to bang pots & pans in front of where he lives Larry Moneta jumped in, “ It’s educational and we are not into personal gratification!”

Sam also excused Dean Sue from the protest since she was a women and it wasn’t her guilt. Upon hearing the news she remarked, “Thank Goodness, now my parents won’t find out!”

The snooze room reported that two more members of the Dimwit Tribe “resigned” off the DPD. LieStoppers promised that they will still be part the Dimwit Tribe, the only difference is Gottlieb & Himan won’t be carrying guns anymore. The news was created with applause by the production crew.

Moneta also laid out this challenge to the Dimwits, "Just because the Dimwits at ahead 5-1 don't think we won't catch up! Just wait & see, the zapatos blancos tribe is psyched up"

Heard about Town

Trinity Park Residents breathe a huge sigh of relief as the DPD checked out the “noose” that was sighted at the TP Gazebo. Fortunately it was just a small segment of loose rope up in a tree and was not a “noose.” True Incident!

Tony Soprano exclaimed, "You just can't make this sh*t up!"

LATE BREAKING NEWS!It seems like VP Moneta wasn't just blowing Hot Air again! The Chronicle reported that Duke Chief of Police Robert Dean is retiring.

DUPD head to end four-decade stint

Robert Dean, director of the Duke University Police Department, will retire this year, a University official confirmed Wednesday.

Dean, who came out of retirement in June 2005 to lead DUPD, is calling it quits after more than 40 years with the department, Aaron Graves, associate vice president for campus safety and security, told The Chronicle.

"He has served Duke faithfully and loyally on two occasions," Graves said. "We will now enter a search to replace him and even get the community involved."

Dean could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

The veteran lawman was lured out of retirement three years ago to serve as head of DUPD while the University began searching for a new associate vice president for campus safety and security.

He succeeded previous chief Clarence Birkhead, who stepped down in May 2005 to take up a post leading the Hillsborough Police Department.

"Bob Dean has been a mentor to many of our officers," Kemel Dawkins, vice president for campus services, told Ten Fourteen, DUPD's employee newsletter, in July 2005 when Dean took the position. "He was trusted by people everywhere, from Student Affairs officials who sought out his advice to local reporters. He knows the department, Duke and Durham."

Dean retired in 2003 but returned to DUPD to serve on an interim basis...Chronicle

That's makes Three members of the Durham & Duke PD who have "retired" this week. Strangely enough all three are alleged to have been at the meeting in late March 2006 when City Manger Baker, DPD Chief Chalmers, Duke VP of Security Graves, Duke PD Chief Dean, and other members of Durham & Duke's legal team were told that there would be no SBI DNA matches from Crystal's body swabs to any Lax Team member. They were briefed that the "investigation was going poorly and Crystal could not ID anyone in two attempts. Everyone was urged to move the "Investigation" and find the guilty parties.

30 comments:

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Only LS could suggest that a man who is over sixty with a prior retirement and forty plus years of working has a dubious retirement. Like Burness, it is time. Himan did not retire but left Durham for another job. Where is Rhonda when we need her, to put her slant on this issue?

Anyone who thinks that civil servants Himan, Gottlieb just gave up working on that 20 year retirement package 8 or more years short is crazy. Cops do 20 and collect the pension for life. Just look at what Nifong was willing to do for his package.

Dean was head of Duke' security while Duke students were singled out for harsher enforcement and punishment than Durham residents. He did nothing about it.

He also know his department gave illegal access to the students rooms without a warrant. The time cards for the students were illegally given to the police, as well a McFadden's email. Did he every comment that it was wrong? Investigate who do what?

If he's proud of that record, that is another problem then Duke is better off without him. Under his leadership, the Lax team was given several grounds to sue the University. He may have cost the University millions of dollars.

4;32 I thought the keycard business was settled at the Supreme Court level - no fault there. Do we know Dean gave out the information? How can it be Dean that cost Duke millions when we all know it was a 40K a year staff nurse - or LS bloggers would have you believe. gotta keep those stories straight.

5:22Civil servants usually do 20 years and move onto a new job. The life time pension makes government work different. Work the 2nd job while collecting a pension as well. He could have gone to another government job, don't know.

As to medical leave, we don't know what Goittlieb retirement deal was. Usually you don't get full benefits short of 20 years.

Then why, if it was legal and Duke PD gave them to Nifong did he present a motion to Judge Titus requesting them months later and Duke wrote a letter supporting it AFTER THE FACT! When Nifong & Duke knew they had already given them???

The scandal will blow up in Duke's & Durham's Face. Brodhead and the CMT along with the Duke PD knew there was no assault. They just kowtowed to the wishes of the lynch mob on Campus & in Durham.

Anonymous said... I have sent "proof" of my brother's beaten body, and BLUE blood to Joan Foster, Baldo, Quasimodo, Tony Soprano, abb, Jason Trumpbour, and several others, yet which of you will come forward and speak out on Jack's behalf?!

His death was a staged suicide involving shady LE, his body parts taken and SOLD, and not ONE of you gives a damn?!

You all take far too much time to dedicate to one case, when the line of crimes against many are just ignored! It is a sad statement that not only does the "legal system" not care, neither do the citizens!

Greg Baker from the FBI is a farce, Sheriff Hill is a sock puppet, Mayor Bell is a hack, and Mr Saacks is a POS just as his mentor Nifong was/is!

But I will tell you ALL this, if it was your loved one, would you FIGHT like we have for 3 needless long years to learn the TRUTH and seek JUSTICE as we have?!

My computer is being hacked, I have been threatened with DEATH, and you laugh?! You should be ashamed and Thank God that you are miles away and this is just a past time for you!

You mock our loss and pain, look the other way, and still manage to sleep at night?! Not only does our government have no conscience, neither do the "People?!"

We have had many people write on behalf of Jack to the Governor's Office, and the Sheriff's Office, to DEMAND an Internal Affair investigation, and to release to us ALL documentation of his case forthwith and without haste.

I am BEGGING for SERIOUS help from media and legal professionals to help us have JUSTICE for the life and blood of a man who made 2 grave mistakes, one is the marriage, the second is the city he called home!

I have proof, blue blood from the entrance, no blood from the 2 exits, negative GSR test to his hands, bashed head, choke marks, bruising to his chest, punched eye, swollen jaw, missing car, maggots at the time he was found, within 8 hours of being missing, proof of fraud to get his estate, and a mountain of lies from the cops, and his wife!

I have gleaned enough documentation to prove murder and fraud, the DA and Sheriff KNOWS it, they refuse to take our complaints, lie to us, threaten me, and can back up my claim that he was murdered, and covered up by LE.

As for his organs, we were told they were "donated" but have never been given documents that said he gave his permission, and through my investigating have found a cop owns the funeral home they burned what was left of him 3 days after being found dead, without doing an autopsy.

His wife disconnected her phone right after his death when me and our mom started asking her questions which she kept changing, never even sent us the ashes we asked for, and have found out quite a bit to cast a huge shadow of doubt to her and the cops versions of "what happened."

As God is my witness, the TRUTH shall be known, and is NOT about us wanting his money! It is ALL about LOVE and RESPECT for a man we all adored and admired! My own father was an alcoholic and cruel, and sadly it was my brother I grew up admiring for being the compassionate, brilliant, humorous, and decent man he was!

NOBODY deserves to die the way he did, the loss is so tremendous that it has broken our hearts to know he was tortured and murdered for what he worked so hard for ALL of his life, and then slaughtered at the beginning of a new life at the young age of 46 to retire, and teach as he hoped to do!

Jack was more than admirable, he was a hero to the family and friends he had and although nothing will bring him back, I can restore his dignity, name, and memory! Jack was so full of love and life, and have faith in God that he will have some goodness come from so much suffering!

And for those of you who read this and find this to be "boring and tired of seeing" well all I can say is I am tired of the nightmares, the heartache, and the KNOWLEDGE of what was done, and not done for him!

AND to those who have SEEN his battered head and body with BLUE blood, you should be ashamed and disgusted that the city is fighting so hard to keep the truth from ever coming out! Thank God this was not your loved one!

Why else would his wife and LE lie from the beginning, threaten me, refuse to take our complaints and requests if this was a suicide?!

BECAUSE they KNOW he was murdered, and will be damned if us "yankees" will out them for the badges, and politicians hiding behind their walls of silence!

But just like God did at Jericho, he will do in Durham and the walls WILL come crumbling down! Jack did not live and die in vain, and as his youngest sister am fighting for him and our mother, and my child to see that one person can make a difference! Jack did, and with the same spirit, know I can too!

I have gone public for help, and for our safety! And just as I fought and battled cancer and won, with God's help will do the same with Jack's murder!

I would only hope any of you would do the same! And I truly do HATE even being in this position, but it is my duty and honor to reveal the coverup, restore his memory, have closure, and also have a grave to mark his existance!

I have sent "proof" of my brother's beaten body, and BLUE blood to Joan Foster, Baldo, Quasimodo, Tony Soprano, abb, Jason Trumpbour, and several others, yet which of you will come forward and speak out on Jack's behalf?!

His death was a staged suicide involving shady LE, his body parts taken and SOLD, and not ONE of you gives a damn?!

You all take far too much time to dedicate to one case, when the line of crimes against many are just ignored! It is a sad statement that not only does the "legal system" not care, neither do the citizens!

Greg Baker from the FBI is a farce, Sheriff Hill is a sock puppet, Mayor Bell is a hack, and Mr Saacks is a POS just as his mentor Nifong was/is!

But I will tell you ALL this, if it was your loved one, would you FIGHT like we have for 3 needless long years to learn the TRUTH and seek JUSTICE as we have?!

My computer is being hacked, I have been threatened with DEATH, and you laugh?! You should be ashamed and Thank God that you are miles away and this is just a past time for you!

You mock our loss and pain, look the other way, and still manage to sleep at night?! Not only does our government have no conscience, neither do the "People?!"

We have had many people write on behalf of Jack to the Governor's Office, and the Sheriff's Office, to DEMAND an Internal Affair investigation, and to release to us ALL documentation of his case forthwith and without haste.

I am BEGGING for SERIOUS help from media and legal professionals to help us have JUSTICE for the life and blood of a man who made 2 grave mistakes, one is the marriage, the second is the city he called home!

Rhonda FlemingDurham SURVIVORjustice4all2005@yahoo.com

How long will people go on endlessly about ONE case, when there is a PLETHORA of injustices that have yet to see the light of day?! Durham is a cesspool, you have sampled a small taste of their posion, have witnessed only a sample of the corruption, and where the hell is the NATIONAL outrage?!

Nifong gets ONE day in jail, Mike Owens also gets only ONE year, Gottleib and Hinman got paid off, and Elmos is hero of the year?!

Where is the ANGER and COURAGE to protest?! Why haven't you all spent some time contacting NC state officials, and Washington?!

They watch this site EACH day, from the Pentagon on down, and have destroyed my faith in the entire judicial system!

Many more people are suffering from their dirty deeds, and we weep each day and scream for JUSTICE to deaf ears! I don't care if you people hate me or not, I am here to get RESOLUTION for my brother's murder, and for Janet Araboa, and Michelle Young!

More innocent victims, our families and the community! How many more lives are being destroyed each day?! For the love of God people, WAKE UP, and take a STAND!

Rhonda FlemingDurham SURVIVOR!

Report: Easley press office ordered e-mails deletedMar 29, 2008

RALEIGH, N.C. -- State government public information officers were instructed by Gov. Mike Easley's press office to delete e-mails to and from the governor's office, according to notes released Saturday by the governor's office.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Saturday that Andrew A. Vanore Jr., a lawyer who works for Easley, produced notes made by two public information officers. The notes showed that they and others were told at a meeting on May 29, 2007, to destroy e-mails. A third public information officer said he also recalled those instructions.

But Vanore said the notes don't mean what they say. He also said the instructions were not followed.

Easley's chief legal counsel, Reuben F. Young, has been vacationing with his family in China and could not be reached for comment. Deputy press secretary Seth Effron has been instructed by Vanore not to comment.

Questions about the way the Easley administration handles e-mails arose after publication of an N&O series, "Mental Disorder: The Failure of Reform." The series reported on an ill-conceived and poorly executed mental health reform plan on which the state has wasted at least $400 million.

Two days after the series ended, Easley ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to fire its public information officer, Debbie Crane. Later that day, Crane told The N&O that the governor's press office had directed that e-mails be deleted to bypass the state's public records law.

Young and Effron quickly denied that such instructions had been given.

Julia Jarema, public information officer at the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, recorded this note for the meeting in question: "Public records request -- increasing careful of email delete emails to/from gov. office every day."

Diana Kees, public information officer at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, recorded this note: "emails - more & more public records requests (blogs?) be careful w/emails; delete emails to and from gov office every day."

Vanore said he did not know what the notes meant.

"It could be interpreted a number of different ways, and the only way to properly interpret it would be to talk to the individual who took the note," he said. But he said he had instructed all of the employees not to talk about that issue because the newspaper may file a lawsuit.

Vanore said the e-mail messages to and from the governor's press office were clear and irrefutable proof that there was no systematic intent to destroy e-mail.

Hugh Stevens, an attorney who represents The N&O, said the notes made by Jarema and Kees confirmed Crane's allegation.

"This sounds to me as though there was a concerted and willful attempt to evade the public records law by deleting the e-mails," he said. "I don't see how you can interpret it any other way."

Guess whose e-mails were deleted? OURS! I have had numerous people write to both Easley, and the Sheriff, for our case, and after being "blacklisted" from the county website and willingly negligent, here is more PROOF of the deliberate abuse of powers in public offices to purposely deny the public RIGHTS, and to perform MORE illegal and unconstitutional tactics to prevent being "OUTED!"

WE DEMAND JUSTICE NOW!

Rhonda FlemingDurham SURVIVOR!LieStoppers 30th March 2008 15:36:29

Why don't you join the board and DO something instead of just watching! BASTARDS!

204.152.2.80 (North Carolina Adminstrative Office Of The Courts)

North Carolina, Raleigh, United States, 17 returning visits

Date Time WebPage 30th March 2008 15:35:11

LieStoppers 30th March 2008 15:36:01

http://www.heraldsun.com/state/6-937904.cfm

PROOF of the Sheriff's Office returning our e-mails:

MORE proof of the denial of the Sheriff's Office to take our complaints and requests! My God, they CANNOT get away with this!!!Undeliverable: Mr Croft's death "System Administrator" ..

DURHAM -- Despite claims by inmates that a Durham County Jail prisoner spoke openly of suicidal tendencies and a discovery of suicide notes, officials say they received no such indications before the 27-year-old man ended his life.

And there are no plans for policy or structural changes at the jail, where fellow inmates found assault suspect Brian Lashand Rollins hanging from part of a window frame in his cell about 4 p.m. on Feb. 9. That was about 30 minutes after he'd last been seen alive, according to the report of his autopsy.

Days after the hanging death of Rollins, county leaders told The Herald-Sun they'd await the outcome of the Sheriff's Office investigation to determine if additional safety precautions were needed to ensure the jail was a safe place for its inmates.

According to Deputy County Manager Carolyn Titus, it is routine procedure for the Sheriff's Office to investigate a jailhouse death, ensure no foul play was involved and then recommend any adjustments that need to be made to the facility.

Titus said that the Sheriff's Office made no such recommendations and expressed confidence in the safety of inmates housed at the jail.

Rollins, a father of eight, was without a pulse when he was discovered. He was taken to Duke University Hospital, where he was declared brain dead the next morning and died a short time later.

He was found hanging from a window frame in his cell. But the Sheriff's Office says there is no need to adjust cells by removing items from which an inmate could be hanged. Sheriff's Office Investigator Tom Mellown, who investigated the case, said suicidal individuals can hang themselves from anything, so long as they can apply enough pressure to the neck to block the passage of air.

Yet in the past, the Sheriff's Office has requested money from the county to rid cells of vents based on the argument that the vents present a safety threat and an opportunity for hanging. Mellown, who as investigator has no part in budgeting, could not comment on those past requests, he said.

Mellown's criminal investigation into Rollins' death determined there was no foul play. From conversations with guards, jail employees and four or five inmates, Mellown determined there were no indications that the 27-year-old inmate was suicidal, he said.

One inmate did tell the investigator that Rollins never responded to him when he tried to chat with him from an adjacent cell. Another inmate told the investigator Rollins talked to him about wanting to end his life. But according to Mellown, the inmate said he never told any jail guards or officials of Rollins' intentions.

One inmate who was in the jail at the same time as Rollins told The Herald-Sun that, contrary to the Sheriff's Office's investigation, the troubled inmate told anyone who would listen that he wanted to end his life. But the guards, he claimed, were either too busy or didn't care and ignored Rollins' repeated pleas for help.

Rollins was distraught, the source said, over relationship issues involving a woman. Rollins was being held in the jail on a charge of assault on a female. His bond was $50,000. It was unclear whether the assault victim was the same woman with whom he was romantically involved.

According to the Sheriff's Office, no red flags arose during a 10-question psychological assessment that Rollins, like all inmates entering the jail, was subject to when he arrived at the facility Feb. 6.

Jail procedure calls for inmates to be administered the test only upon arrival, regardless of how long they are to be held in the jail. But if an inmate reaches out for help or if jail employees notice an inmate acting in a way that demonstrates his or her psychological state has changed, they will be referred for reassessment.

Rollins was not referred for any such assessment.

THIS is the SAME man who "INVESTIGATED" my brother's death, and you all still think HE and LE are to be trusted at all?!?!

AND, again, NO autopsy was done for my brother, AND we were LIED to and told one was done, plus threatened!!!!!

Here is my newest letter sent today to Governor Easley, let us see if this one is deleted and ignored and my other requests. I sent this though the county website.Governor Easley919-733-4240governor.office@nc.mail.net

Mr. Easley,I have, and have had numerous people contact both your office and the Sheriff's Office on behalf of my murdered brother, Allen Jackson Croft Jr, killed May 11, 2005 in Durham NC, found executed on the American Tobacco Trail. He lived on 106 Carlion Court, and and we have written COUNTLESS times to have an Internal Affair's Investigation, AND to release ALL of the documents pertaining to his death, under the Public Record's Act, FOIA, and as next of kin.

It is beyond comprehension as to what was done to, and not to my brother! The abuses of office have proved itself to be not only corrupt, but criminal and their actions, and we are DEMANDING as OUR Civil Rights, and Family to have ANSWERS and JUSTICE for my brother who was a brilliant and loved man to his family, community. and his vocation and after almost 3 years, have been denied, ridiculed, mocked, and threatened, and cannot believe the abject denial and contempt to evade his case, and our family!

What has been done in my brother's case is not just deplorable, but a deliberate cover-up, and after contacting every official in the state of NC, to Washington, am again, turning to you again to comply to our requests, and do so forthwith, and without haste as is by law.

GC - there were lawyers on the LS message boards who investigated the "evidence" for Rhonda. She disagreed with their finding and the whole thing blew up. Seems to me, she got banned from the board. I could be wrong. Does anyone remember what went on there?(Quote from other thread)

The "person" who was a supposed "expert" was nothing more than a hack, he offered me NO reports he did ANY investigation, told me BLUE blood was NORMAL, and NO blood from an exit wound that was a one inch chunk in diameter?!

I have as much faith in his "findings" as I do Detective Mellown, the Durham Sheriff's Department, and the lies from them and the Medical Examiner!

I have sent the pictures to several board members recently, and they have now SEEN themselves, and still have not had the courage to speak the truth about the documents, and is a sad statement for LieStoppers. Saying I was "Off Topic" when my brother was murdered BEFORE the LAX Hoax, have had to deal with the same nefarious lot of officials, and have every right to have FULL disclosure of ALL documentation, and am currently seeking legal help, as we REFUSE to let the persons responsible go free to continue murders for hire, and illegal organ harvesting!

Whomever this "person" is who is so intent on making me look like the village idiot would just say WHO you are, and what is YOUR reason to attempt your childish and vulgar personal attacks, when I am only seeking TRUTH and JUSTICE!

All I have said is TRUE, and if the Sheriff, ME, Jack's wife, or anybody else wished to charge me with slander, they can proceed at any time, but have not because ALL I have said is true, and is why my little "admirers" follow my posts!

Why else would so many officials from the Pentagon, the CIA, Office of Immigration, and numerous other agencies and companies monitor this blog site when there are millions more online?!

This is a ORGANISED plot to discredit me, and only PROVES more contempt of these "mystery bloggers!"

Ask yourselves why would nameless people hurl insults at a family who has begged for justice for 3 years?! I joined this site in the early days, and supported the team and wrote on their behalves, as our family has been railroaded just as they have, only worse because our loved one will never again be in our lives, and what was done to him, us, and other families MUST be EXPOSED!

It is a pity that a blog site that began as a valid attempt to bring forth JUSTICE would quash my attempt to inform the public of the crimes against humanity, and offences that WILL be charged under the RICO statutes!

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What does Nifong and the NBPP have in common?

John In Carolina

"He imagines himself confronted by giants."

"A well-connected and well-financed (but not, I would suggest, well-intentioned) group of individuals—most of whom are neither in nor from North Carolina—have taken it upon themselves to ensure that this case never reaches trial. (And if this seems like paranoid delusion to you, perhaps you should check out websites such as former Duke Law School graduate and current Maryland attorney Jason Trumpbour’s www.friendsofdukeuniversity.blogspot.com/, which has not only called for me to be investigated, removed from this case, and disbarred, but has also provided instructions on how to request such actions and to whom those requests should be sent."